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As you keep walking, you're going to 51 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,120 Speaker 6: see God show out in your life. Hi, this is 52 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 6: Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. We enjoy 53 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 6: spending this time with you. I know you're going to 54 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 6: leave encouraged and inspired. 55 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,800 Speaker 7: Make sure you subscribe to get new messages every week 56 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:42,560 Speaker 7: and follow us on social media to stay connected. 57 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:46,160 Speaker 6: We appreciate your support. It helps keep the ministry going. 58 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 6: Enjoy the message. 59 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 4: God bless you. 60 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,520 Speaker 6: It's great to have you with us today. I hope 61 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,120 Speaker 6: you'll stay connected with us all through the week. You 62 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 6: can download our daily podcast, listen to the messages anytime, 63 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 6: or you can go to our YouTube channel, follow us 64 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:03,000 Speaker 6: on Instagram, Facebook. 65 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:04,399 Speaker 4: But thanks for tuning in. 66 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,320 Speaker 6: I like to start with something funny and I heard 67 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 6: about this pastor. He found a dead mule on the 68 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 6: church grounds. He called the health department. They said they 69 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 6: couldn't pick it up without authorization from the mayor. Well, 70 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 6: the mayor was known to be rude and hard to 71 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 6: get along with. When the pastor called, the mayor didn't 72 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 6: disappoint He started ranting and raving. Finally said, why did 73 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 6: you even call me? Isn't it your job to bury 74 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 6: the dead? The pastor asked God for the right response. 75 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 6: He said, yes, Mayor, it's my job to bury the dead, 76 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:40,000 Speaker 6: but I always like to notify the next of ken first, 77 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 6: say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. 78 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 6: I am what it says I am. I have what 79 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 6: it says I have. I can do what it says 80 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 6: I can do. Today I will be taught the word 81 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,240 Speaker 6: of God. I boldly confess. My mind is alert, my 82 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 6: heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In 83 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 6: jesus Us name, God bless you. I want to talk 84 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 6: to you today about keep on walking. 85 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 4: We all have things that we're believing for, dreams to. 86 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 6: Come to pass, problems to turn around. We have the 87 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 6: promise in our heart, but nothing is happening. We prayed, 88 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,840 Speaker 6: we believed, but we don't see any signs of things improving. 89 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:24,159 Speaker 6: It's easy to get discouraged and think it's never going 90 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,679 Speaker 6: to work out. But most of the time God doesn't 91 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 6: do things instantly. There will be a waiting period. Thoughts 92 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 6: will tell you it's too late. If it was going 93 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 6: to happen, it would have happened by now. But just 94 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,760 Speaker 6: because you don't see anything doesn't mean that God is 95 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 6: not working. 96 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,000 Speaker 4: As you keep. 97 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 6: Believing, keep praising, keep doing the right thing, you're going 98 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:51,039 Speaker 6: to see things begin to change. Many times, the miracle 99 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:55,560 Speaker 6: is in the process. It happens when you keep being obedient. 100 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 6: Don't be frustrated because you're not seeing immediate results. 101 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,480 Speaker 4: What you're believing for is still on the way. 102 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 6: In Luke seventeen, there were ten lepers sitting by the 103 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 6: side of the road as Jesus came passing through on 104 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,120 Speaker 6: his way to Jerusalem. They begin to shout, Jesus, have 105 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,920 Speaker 6: mercy on us, and heal us. Jesus could have gone 106 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:21,039 Speaker 6: over and healed them right there. He could have spoken 107 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 6: to them and cause that leprosy to suddenly disappear. But 108 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 6: he did something interesting. He said, go show yourselves to 109 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 6: the priest. 110 00:05:30,839 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 8: Well. 111 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 6: Leprosy was contagious. They were forbidden to be around people. 112 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,600 Speaker 6: They had to live in colonies, isolated from society. Jesus 113 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:42,920 Speaker 6: asked them to do something that didn't make sense, something 114 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,679 Speaker 6: out of the ordinary. They could have thought, once I'm healed, 115 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 6: once I see my skin clear up, then I'll go 116 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 6: see the priest. But faith says you have to believe 117 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 6: it before you see it. You have to act like 118 00:05:55,480 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 6: it's on the way when you don't see any sign 119 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 6: of it. These lepers started walking toward the priest. It 120 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 6: could have been several miles, maybe taking them most of 121 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 6: the day. I can hear people saying, why are you 122 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,720 Speaker 6: going to the priest. You're not well. You look just 123 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 6: the same. The first couple of hours they looked at 124 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 6: their skin, didn't see anything different. Thoughts said, you might 125 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 6: as well turn around, go back home. You're just wasting 126 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:25,120 Speaker 6: your time. But these lepers just kept on walking, no 127 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 6: sign of things improving, no changes in their skin. 128 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: But hour after hour they kept walking. 129 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 6: I can imagine at one point one of them looked 130 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 6: at their skin and thought, it looks like it's getting better. 131 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:41,560 Speaker 6: Another begin to move his hand, My fingers are starting 132 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 6: to function. Another my skin is starting to clear up. 133 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 6: The scripture says, as they went they were healed. If 134 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 6: they would have stayed where they were waited for things 135 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 6: to change, they would have never seen the miracle. 136 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,839 Speaker 4: The healing was in the obedience in the going. 137 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 6: By the time they got to the priest, they were 138 00:07:01,560 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 6: all perfectly well. 139 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:05,599 Speaker 4: God has put promises in your heart. 140 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 6: He's told you that he's restoring health back into you, 141 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 6: that you're going to lend and not borrow. That as 142 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,440 Speaker 6: for you and your house, you will serve the Lord. 143 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 6: But maybe, like these lepers, nothing looks any different. The 144 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:22,880 Speaker 6: medical report hasn't changed. Your child's still off course, business 145 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:26,680 Speaker 6: hasn't improved. You could get discouraged. Think it's never going 146 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 6: to happen. No, just keep walking, keep being obedient, keep praising, 147 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 6: keep thinking. That's when the miracle is going to take place. 148 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 6: You can't go by what you see or by what 149 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 6: you don't see. Go by what God promised you. Joel, 150 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,240 Speaker 6: I still have these symptoms. 151 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 4: Keep on walking. My business is still slow. Keep on walking. 152 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 4: These people at work are still not treating me right. 153 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:52,960 Speaker 4: Keep on walking. 154 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 6: God sees your obedience. He sees you believing when you 155 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 6: could be discouraged. He hears you praising when you could 156 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 6: be complaining. He sees you stretching when you could be 157 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 6: shrinking back. Now I believe for many of you, you're 158 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 6: about to walk into your healing, Walk into your freedom, 159 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 6: walk into a great spouse, walk into abundance. As you 160 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,239 Speaker 6: keep walking, you're going to see God show out. 161 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 4: In your life. 162 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 6: Many of the miracles Jesus performed required an act of obedience. 163 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:29,320 Speaker 6: His first miracle, turning water into wine, he told the 164 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,439 Speaker 6: staff at the wedding to go fill up these large 165 00:08:32,520 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 6: pots with water. They had to do something that didn't 166 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 6: make sense. They could have said, Jesus, we need wine, 167 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 6: not water. What good is this going to do. The 168 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 6: obedience is. 169 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 4: What brought the miracle. 170 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 6: Without them filling the water pots, there would be no wine. 171 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 6: Is God asking you to do something that doesn't make sense, 172 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 6: To step out in faith when you don't have the 173 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 6: experience to forgive that person that did you wrong, to 174 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 6: pray for others that need healing when you're still not 175 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,360 Speaker 6: feeling well. Is He asking you to bring him five 176 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:07,240 Speaker 6: loaves and. 177 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,719 Speaker 4: Two fish when you need to feed thousands. 178 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 6: It's not so much what you're doing, it's the obedience. 179 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 6: When you prove to God that you're going to do 180 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 6: the right thing, even when it's hard, even when it 181 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,080 Speaker 6: doesn't make sense, then you're going to see God do 182 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 6: awesome things in your life. In the Old Testament, there 183 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 6: was a widow. Her husband had died and left her 184 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 6: in great debt. She finally ran out of funds. Now 185 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 6: the creditors were coming to take her two sons as payment. 186 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,280 Speaker 6: The prophet Elishah showed up and asked her what she 187 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 6: had in her house. She said, I don't have anything 188 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 6: except a small jar of oil. He told her to 189 00:09:49,720 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 6: go out and borrow as many empty containers as she 190 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 6: could find. That didn't make sense. What good was it 191 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 6: going to do to borrow empty containers? He could have said, Elisha, 192 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:05,400 Speaker 6: I need full containers, I need provision, I need funds. 193 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 6: What God asks us to do doesn't always make sense. 194 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 6: His ways are not our ways. Many times it's simply 195 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 6: a test. If you'll obey, the miracle will follow. Don't 196 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:21,480 Speaker 6: talk yourself out of what you know God is telling 197 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 6: you to do. Sometimes it seems ordinary. You're asking God 198 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 6: to promote you. He's saying, get to work on time, 199 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 6: produce more than you have to. 200 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,079 Speaker 4: You're asking God for healing. 201 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:37,960 Speaker 6: He's saying, eat healthier, exercise, get more sleep. You're believing 202 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 6: for your child to get on course. God is saying 203 00:10:40,960 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 6: help that neighbor's child. Invest into that young man. It 204 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 6: doesn't have to make sense. That's what faith is all about. 205 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 6: This widow went out and borrowed all these empty containers. 206 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 6: I can see her knocking on door after door. The 207 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 6: neighbor's thinking, what does she need my container for? She 208 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 6: doesn't have any food, no reason for it. But faith 209 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:07,560 Speaker 6: makes room for provision. You can't wait till it happens. 210 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 6: You have to make room for it when you don't 211 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 6: see any sign of it. You have to talk like 212 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 6: it's on the way. Plan like it's on the way, 213 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 6: Think like it's on the way. After working all day, 214 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 6: she came back to her house. Now she had a 215 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 6: couple dozen empty containers. Elisha told her to pour the 216 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,800 Speaker 6: little oil that she had into one of the empty containers. 217 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 6: She could have said, Elisha, that doesn't make sense. What 218 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 6: good is that going to do? To just transfer the 219 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 6: oil from one container to the other. But instead of 220 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 6: talking herself out of it, she poured that little bit 221 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 6: of oil and kept pouring and pouring and pouring. 222 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 4: She couldn't believe it. 223 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 6: She filled up the first empty container, then another, and another. 224 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:57,400 Speaker 6: The oil never ran out until all the containers were full. 225 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 6: She sold the oil, not only had enough to pay 226 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 6: the creditors, but she had plenty left over to live 227 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 6: off of. But none of this would have happened if 228 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 6: she had not been willing to do something that didn't 229 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 6: make sense. Are you missing your miracle because you're reasoning 230 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:18,520 Speaker 6: everything out? You're looking at it all in the natural. 231 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 6: God is supernatural. He'll ask you to do things that 232 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 6: you may not understand. After Moses died, God raised up 233 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 6: Joshua to. 234 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:29,439 Speaker 4: Lead the Israelites. 235 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 6: The earlier generation never made it into the Promised Land 236 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 6: because they complained and doubted. They wandered in the desert 237 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 6: for forty years. Now the children of that generation had 238 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,839 Speaker 6: grown up. Joshua was their new leader. They were headed 239 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 6: to the Promised Land, but they had to cross the 240 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 6: Jordan River, and there were no bridges in that day. 241 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 4: The problem was it was the rainy season and. 242 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 6: The Jordan was in floodstage. It was over one hundred 243 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 6: and fifty feet wide, with violent currents rushing down from 244 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:08,240 Speaker 6: the melting snow. Joshua was familiar with this type of 245 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 6: scene as a young man. He was there when Moses 246 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 6: held up his staff and the Red Sea parted. He 247 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,800 Speaker 6: had seen God make a way when these two million 248 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 6: people came to the Jordan River and saw how swollen 249 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 6: it was and how strong the currents were. They didn't 250 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:27,240 Speaker 6: want to have anything to do with it. I can 251 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:31,520 Speaker 6: imagine Joshua did. Like his mentor Moses. He held up 252 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 6: his rod and said, Lord, please let these waters part. 253 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:41,360 Speaker 6: Everyone was watching with great anticipation, but nothing happened. Joshua thought, God, 254 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 6: this is my first test to show these people that 255 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 6: you're really with me. 256 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 4: Don't leave me hanging here. 257 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 6: God promised Joshua as I was with Moses, I will 258 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,120 Speaker 6: be with you. He didn't say I'm going to do 259 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 6: for you everything I did for Moses. God does things 260 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,960 Speaker 6: different ways. You have a unique anointing. There's a distinct 261 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,559 Speaker 6: calling on your life. You don't have to copy someone else. 262 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 6: Try to be what they are. Prove your worth, prove 263 00:14:10,960 --> 00:14:14,440 Speaker 6: that you measure up. Walk in your own anointing, Walk 264 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 6: in your own calling. The Jordan River didn't part. Joshua 265 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,560 Speaker 6: had to make a decision. Are we going to turn 266 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:26,560 Speaker 6: around and go back wonder more in the desert or 267 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 6: are we going to keep walking. Joshua's attitude was, We've 268 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 6: come too far to stop now. God, you wouldn't have 269 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:36,600 Speaker 6: promised us this land if you weren't going to give 270 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,160 Speaker 6: us the victory. Instead of turning back, Joshua put the 271 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 6: priest out in front. 272 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 4: He told all the people, let's keep walking. 273 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 6: I can hear them say, excuse me, Joshua, do you 274 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 6: not see there's a violent, raging river a few hundred 275 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 6: feet in front of us. There's nowhere to go. Joshua 276 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 6: acted like he didn't hear them. His instructions were keep 277 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 6: on walking. There will always be people that try to 278 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 6: convince you to turn back. Your dream is too big, 279 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 6: the opposition too strong. Nothing's working out. Just accept it. 280 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 4: You have to do like Joshua and have a made 281 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 4: up mind. 282 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,240 Speaker 6: I'm going to keep walking. I'm going to become all 283 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 6: I was created to be. The priest got right up 284 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 6: to the water. It was do or die, now or never, 285 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 6: but the waters. 286 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 4: Still didn't part. 287 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:32,960 Speaker 6: They looked back at Joshua one last time, thinking, surely 288 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 6: he's going to retreat. Now, surely he'll come to his senses. 289 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 6: Joshua answered with three simple. 290 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 4: Words, keep on walking. 291 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 6: The scripture says when the priest got in the water, 292 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:49,480 Speaker 6: when their feet got wet, suddenly the waters begin to 293 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 6: push back. All two million people went through on dry ground. 294 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 6: Miracles happen when there's obedience. God doesn't give us all 295 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,280 Speaker 6: the details. He doesn't show you how it's going to 296 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 6: work out. May not happen like you've seen happen with 297 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:09,640 Speaker 6: your family. There may not be any sign of things changing. 298 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 4: Like Joshua. 299 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:13,600 Speaker 6: Every circumstance may say it's not going. 300 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 4: To turn around. 301 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:18,760 Speaker 6: Go back. No use believing for your dreams. It's too late, 302 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,520 Speaker 6: you'll never get well. It would have happened by now. 303 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 6: Don't believe those lies. 304 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 4: Keep walking. God is not moved by what's not moving. 305 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 6: He's not intimidated by waters that aren't partying, by how 306 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:37,280 Speaker 6: big the obstacle is, by how impossible it looks. In fact, 307 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 6: many times God will wait on purpose till the river 308 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 6: is in flood stage. He'll wait till the experts say 309 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 6: there's no way, the odds are against you. So when 310 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 6: He turns it around, everyone will know it was his favor, 311 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:56,080 Speaker 6: his power, his goodness. In your life, you may have 312 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 6: situations you don't see how it can work out, in 313 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,000 Speaker 6: your health, your finances, your relationships. 314 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 4: You're tempted to quit believing. 315 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 6: If Joshua were here today, he would tell you keep walking. 316 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 4: You're on the verge. 317 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 6: Of a miracle. Those waters are about to open up. 318 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,360 Speaker 6: Now you may have to get your feet wet. May 319 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 6: not happen like with Moses, where the waters part first, 320 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,160 Speaker 6: you can see your way clearly. You know exactly how 321 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 6: it's going to work out. Sometimes God waits to see 322 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 6: if you're going to trust. 323 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 4: Him when the waters haven't parted. 324 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 6: Are you going to believe when you don't see any 325 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 6: sign of things changing, You don't feel like you have 326 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 6: the strength, the courage, the ability. If you'll just keep walking, praying, expecting. 327 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 4: Doors are going to open that you couldn't open. 328 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,679 Speaker 6: Healing that defies the odds, freedom from things that have 329 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:54,399 Speaker 6: held you back. Some Jordan rivers are about to part. 330 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:58,119 Speaker 6: Things you've been standing in faith for for a long time. 331 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 6: It's about to come to pass. It's not going to 332 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 6: be ordinary. It's going to be the hand of God. 333 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 6: When God parted the Red Sea for Moses, the water's open. 334 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,080 Speaker 6: Before the people went through, they could see their way clearly. 335 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 6: It was a great miracle. But that doesn't take as 336 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,840 Speaker 6: much faith when you know where the funds are coming from. 337 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:23,479 Speaker 6: The medical report's good. Your child is excelling. Those people 338 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 6: wandered in the desert for forty years. But when God 339 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 6: parted the Jordan River for Joshua, when the people had 340 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,760 Speaker 6: to get their feet wet and keep walking when it 341 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,040 Speaker 6: didn't look like it was working, that group of people 342 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:39,359 Speaker 6: made it into their promised land. 343 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 4: I believe it's. 344 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 6: Significant when you don't see how it can work out, 345 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,880 Speaker 6: but you keep walking, you keep believing, you keep being 346 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,560 Speaker 6: good to people. That means you're about to enter your 347 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 6: promised land. God is setting you up to go where 348 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 6: you've never been, to see favor you've never seen. Now, 349 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,879 Speaker 6: don't complain because the water is not parting. That doesn't 350 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:06,359 Speaker 6: mean God is not going to do it. That's a 351 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 6: sign that what He's up to is bigger than you've imagined. 352 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 6: You may be at the Jordan River right now, nothing 353 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,000 Speaker 6: is changing. God is waiting to see. Are you going 354 00:19:18,040 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 6: to turn around and go back? 355 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 4: Joel? I prayed. I believe, but my dreams. 356 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 6: Didn't come to pass. These people at work stopped me. 357 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 6: I couldn't break the addiction. The waters didn't part, You're 358 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,399 Speaker 6: right where Joshua was. Didn't work the first time. The 359 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 6: obstacle looks impassable. The river is swollen, the problem bigger 360 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 6: than it's ever been. 361 00:19:39,280 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 4: That's a test. You have to get your feet wet. 362 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 6: If you'll keep walking, you're going to see God open 363 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 6: up things you never dream would open, turn problems around 364 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,159 Speaker 6: you never dream would turn around. That Jordan River is 365 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:57,719 Speaker 6: setting you up for your promised land. David said, I 366 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 6: was young. Now I'm old, and I've never seen the 367 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,119 Speaker 6: righteous forsaken. He was saying, in effect, I've never seen 368 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 6: a Jordan River. God won't part. I've never seen a 369 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:11,159 Speaker 6: sickness that he won't heal. I've never seen a dream 370 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:14,440 Speaker 6: that he won't bring to pass. When we were trying 371 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 6: to acquire the Compact Center, God gave us favor and 372 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,920 Speaker 6: the city councils voted for us to have the building. 373 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,280 Speaker 6: It was a year and a half process. Council members 374 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,320 Speaker 6: that were against us suddenly changed their mind and the 375 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 6: facility was ours. Like Moses, we prayed. We believed God 376 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 6: parted the Red Sea. We were grateful. We knew it 377 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 6: was the hand of God. But a few days later 378 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 6: a company filed a lawsuit to try to keep us 379 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:42,520 Speaker 6: from moving in. 380 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 4: They said that we violated the deed restrictions. 381 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 6: Our attorneys told us it could be tied up in 382 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 6: the courts for ten years. 383 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 4: It was like a roller coaster. 384 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 6: We went from this great celebration to the reality that 385 00:20:56,119 --> 00:20:57,520 Speaker 6: it may not ever work out. 386 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,359 Speaker 4: It's times like these when you don't see away. 387 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 6: The opposition is bigger and stronger that you see what 388 00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 6: you're made of. It's easy to believe when God parts 389 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,520 Speaker 6: red seas, But what do you do when you. 390 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 4: Come to the Jordan River. 391 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,760 Speaker 6: You prayed, you believe, but it didn't part. You held 392 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,680 Speaker 6: up your rod like your mentor. You did what your 393 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:24,080 Speaker 6: parents did, but nothing happened. Are you going to get 394 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 6: your feet wet? Are you going to keep walking even 395 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 6: though thoughts tell you it's not going to work out. 396 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,760 Speaker 4: You might as well turn around. 397 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 6: After all, God's been good to you. Be grateful for 398 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:38,440 Speaker 6: what you have. Don't let the enemy talk you out 399 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 6: of your promised land. God has bigger things in your future. 400 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 6: He has new mountains for you to climb. Keep walking 401 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,280 Speaker 6: when the waters aren't parting, Keep walking when you're not 402 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:54,640 Speaker 6: being promoted, Keep walking when your health isn't improving, when 403 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,439 Speaker 6: the pandemic seems like it's stopped your dreams. The reason 404 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 6: you're facing a ris at flood stage not just a 405 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:07,520 Speaker 6: normal river, but the obstacle is bigger, more stubborn. Is 406 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 6: because your promised land is on the other side. You 407 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 6: don't come to Jordan rivers rivers you have to get 408 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 6: your feet wet. If it's just another ordinary victory, something common, 409 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 6: the Jordan means God is about to thrust you to 410 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 6: a new level. I woke up many times in the 411 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:28,600 Speaker 6: middle of the night when we were in that lawsuit 412 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 6: with thoughts telling me you better turn around. You've told 413 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 6: people that it's your building, you're raising funds for it. 414 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,200 Speaker 4: When you have to give it back, you're going to 415 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 4: look like a fool. Nobody's going to listen to you. 416 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:46,359 Speaker 6: All these voices saying retreat, it didn't part. If God 417 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,479 Speaker 6: was for you, you wouldn't have this opposition. If it 418 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 6: was going to work out, you wouldn't. 419 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 4: Have this lawsuit. 420 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,360 Speaker 6: No, God being for you doesn't mean you won't have opposition. 421 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 6: The enemy wouldn't be trying to stop you if you 422 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,320 Speaker 6: weren't a threat to him. He doesn't come against people 423 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:05,560 Speaker 6: that don't have great destinies. 424 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 4: The reason you're facing big. 425 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 6: Giants is because you're at the Jordan River. You're about 426 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,080 Speaker 6: to come in to your promised land. I didn't see 427 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 6: how this lawsuit could ever resolve. The other side was stubborn, 428 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 6: but I did what I'm asking us to do. 429 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 4: I kept on. 430 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,160 Speaker 6: Walking when thoughts told me it would never work out. 431 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 6: This company is bigger, stronger, more influential. 432 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 4: Father. Thank you that you're fighting our battles. 433 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 6: Thank you that you being for us is more than 434 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 6: the world being against us. Our attorneys told us the 435 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:43,000 Speaker 6: other side would probably pay us a large sum of 436 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 6: money for us to go away. They threw out numbers 437 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,639 Speaker 6: that we could practically build another facility, but we didn't 438 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:51,480 Speaker 6: want the money. 439 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 4: We wanted the building. 440 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 6: This building is one of the main landmarks in the 441 00:23:56,280 --> 00:24:00,040 Speaker 6: city of Houston. Two million people of year came through it. 442 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:00,880 Speaker 4: It's on the main. 443 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,679 Speaker 6: Freeway, has great access. We could have thought, let's just 444 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 6: be safe. 445 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 4: We may not win. 446 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 6: Let's take the funds and go do something else. But 447 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,159 Speaker 6: God doesn't want you to water down your dream, to 448 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 6: take less than what you know is in your heart. 449 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,200 Speaker 6: And there will always be people trying to convince you 450 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:20,960 Speaker 6: to settle. 451 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 4: Just accept it. 452 00:24:23,040 --> 00:24:26,600 Speaker 6: You'll never get well, never break the addiction, never get 453 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,840 Speaker 6: out of this neighborhood. No, don't water down your dream. 454 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 6: You may be at the Jordan. Your feet are wet, 455 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 6: but nothing is parting. It looks like you could drown. 456 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 6: God has not failed in the past. 457 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:40,760 Speaker 4: He's not going to start with you. 458 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:46,040 Speaker 6: Keep on walking, believing, praying, doing the right things. Waters 459 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:49,920 Speaker 6: are about to part, doors are about to open, Problems 460 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 6: are about to turn around. Instead of you retreating, the 461 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,720 Speaker 6: opposition is. 462 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:57,960 Speaker 4: Going to retreat. The waters are going to push back. 463 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 6: The sickness, the debt, the trouble is about to push back. 464 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 6: God is going to make a way where you don't 465 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,719 Speaker 6: see away. The scripture tells us to put on the 466 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 6: armor of God. Talks about the helmet of salvation, the 467 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 6: breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shoes of peace, 468 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:21,159 Speaker 6: the shield of faith. What's interesting is there's no armor 469 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 6: for your backside. There's nothing to cover you from the rear. 470 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 6: That's because you weren't created to retreat. You weren't created 471 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:34,200 Speaker 6: to run from opposition. You have armor for one direction, 472 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,880 Speaker 6: to keep moving forward. When you stand strong and fight 473 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:42,520 Speaker 6: the good fight of faith, opposition will run from you. 474 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 6: Psal one fourteen says the Red Sea saw the Israelites 475 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:49,480 Speaker 6: and hurried out of their way. 476 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:52,640 Speaker 4: God is going to part some waters quickly. 477 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 6: Looks like it's going to take a long time to 478 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:59,120 Speaker 6: get well, long time to accomplish the dream, a long 479 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,600 Speaker 6: time to get out of debt. No, get ready, It's 480 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:04,680 Speaker 6: going to happen sooner than you think. God is going 481 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,760 Speaker 6: to cause those waters, that opposition, that depression, to hurry 482 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:12,960 Speaker 6: out of your way. One day, out of the blue, 483 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:15,920 Speaker 6: the other side called and said they wanted to meet. 484 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 6: We hadn't spoken to them in months. Everything was at 485 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,159 Speaker 6: a stalemate. They showed up and in that one meeting 486 00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 6: changed their mind and said we could have the building. 487 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 6: They not only dropped the lawsuit, but they leased us 488 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 6: nine thousand covered parking spaces. We didn't have to build 489 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 6: our own parking structure. 490 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:36,120 Speaker 4: What happened. 491 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 6: We came in to our promised land. I wonder what 492 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,480 Speaker 6: awaits you if you'll just keep walking. Well, Joel and 493 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 6: I have some big obstacles. Can I tell you we 494 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 6: serve a big God. He flung stars into space, he 495 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,120 Speaker 6: spoke worlds into existence. He can get you to where 496 00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 6: you're supposed to be. The medical report says, I'm not 497 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,520 Speaker 6: going to get well. God can do what medicine cannot do. 498 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 6: There's not a Jordan river. He can't part That child. 499 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 6: May be off course, making bad choices. It looks permanent, 500 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,480 Speaker 6: but that is not his destiny. What God started he's 501 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 6: going to finish. You can stand in the gap for 502 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:22,360 Speaker 6: your children. Yes, they make their own decisions, but as parents, 503 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 6: you have a God given authority. When you pray, when 504 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 6: you speak life, when you thank God that forces of 505 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 6: darkness are broken, angels go to work, Jordan rivers are 506 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,480 Speaker 6: pushed back. God hears your prayers, He sees your faithfulness. 507 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,000 Speaker 6: He sees you believing. When you don't see things changing, 508 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,679 Speaker 6: thank in him. When you could be complaining, your time 509 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 6: is coming, some waters are about to part. You wouldn't 510 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 6: be hearing this if God didn't have breakthroughs come in 511 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 6: your way. Just because your feet are wet, just because 512 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,480 Speaker 6: you don't see anything improving. 513 00:27:58,320 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 4: Doesn't mean that it's not going to happen. 514 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,280 Speaker 6: God is watching you, and at the right time, things 515 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:08,119 Speaker 6: are going to change. The miracle is a process. It 516 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,960 Speaker 6: takes time, but when you come into your moment, suddenly 517 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:13,240 Speaker 6: things will turn around. 518 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,600 Speaker 4: My challenge is stay in faith until you see the suddenly. 519 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 4: Keep on walking. 520 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 6: The enemy always talks the loudest when you're close to 521 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 6: the water's party. Tune out all the negative voices and 522 00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 6: tune in what God promised. 523 00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 4: He has spoken it, and he will bring it to pass. 524 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 6: He wouldn't let you face a Jordan river where your 525 00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 6: promised land is on the other side, if that. 526 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:40,720 Speaker 4: Was going to keep you from your purpose. 527 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 6: The reason you can't see away is because it's not 528 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 6: going to happen naturally. God is going to do it supernaturally, 529 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 6: things that you couldn't make happen. Don't try to figure 530 00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:54,080 Speaker 6: it out. Just keep believing, keep expecting, keep doing the 531 00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 6: right thing. Now, I believe and declare. As you keep 532 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:01,360 Speaker 6: on walking like these lepers, you're going to see healing, 533 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,520 Speaker 6: favor promotion. Like Joshua, waters are about to part, new 534 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 6: doors are about to open, Obstacles are about to come down. 535 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 6: You're going to make it into your promised land. 536 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 4: In Jesus's name. 537 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 6: Well, I'd like to give you an opportunity to make 538 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 6: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 539 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 6: Just say, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 540 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 6: into my heart. 541 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 4: I make you my Lord and savior. 542 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,560 Speaker 6: If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 543 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 6: born again. 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